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[LOS ANGELES] Apple’s silicon design group is working on new chips that will serve as the brains for future devices, including its first smart glasses, more powerful Macs and artificial intelligence (AI) servers. The company has made progress on the chip that it’s developing for smart glasses, according to sources with knowledge of the matter. The move indicates that Apple is ramping up work on such a device, which would compete with the popular Ray-Ban spectacles offered by Meta Platforms. The silicon team has become a critical piece of Apple’s product development engine in recent years, especially after it began replacing…

Nick Wright reveals his top 8 WR duos in the NFL, with Ja’Marr Chase and Tee Higgins claiming the number 1 spot.

SINGAPORE: Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp (OCBC), Singapore’s second largest bank, maintained 2025 guidance and set aside credit allowances, citing a challenging economic outlook after posting on Friday (May 9) a 5 per cent drop in first-quarter net profit that beat expectations. “Looking ahead, the heightened uncertainties brought about by the shifts in trade policies and geopolitical risks are expected to have a dampening effect on overall economic growth in the region,” OCBC’s Group Chief Executive Helen Wong said in a statement. “We have prudently set aside credit allowances to buffer our portfolio on a forward-looking basis, in view of the challenging…

[SINGAPORE] Frasers Property posted a 147.6 per cent jump in net profit to S$142.2 million for the first half ended Mar 31, 2025, from S$57.4 million in the year-ago period.The surge was largely due to a net tax credit of S$6.1 million, reversing a tax expense of S$117.5 million in the prior year, the real estate developer said in a bourse filing on Friday (May 9). The group attributed the credit to the reversal of tax provisions subsequent to finalisation. However, profit before tax and exceptional items fell 13.5 per cent to S$286 million, from S$330.5 million a year ago,…

FRISCO, Texas — The 2025 Academy of Country Music Awards are taking place Thursday at the Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas, just north of Dallas. This year marks the 60th annual edition of the ceremony and Reba McEntire will once again host.For more AP ACM Awards coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/academy-of-country-music-awards___This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.

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Red Wall MPs should push for the two-child benefit cap to be lifted rather than a reversal of the winter fuel payment policy, Baroness Harriet Harman has said.Baroness Harman, the former Labour Party chair, told Sky’s Electoral Dysfunction podcast that this would hand the group a “progressive win” rather than simply “protesting and annoying Sir Keir Starmer” over winter fuel. Earlier this week, a number of MPs in the Red Wall – Labour’s traditional heartlands in the north of England – reposted a statement on social media in which they said the leadership’s response to the local elections had “fallen…

[SINGAPORE] Recent US sanctions on two small Chinese refiners for buying Iranian oil have created difficulties receiving crude and led them to sell product under other names, sources familiar with the matter said, evidence of the disruption that Washington’s stepped-up pressure is inflicting on Tehran’s biggest oil buyer.The targeting of independent refiners, known as teapots, marked an escalation in Washington’s efforts to cut off Tehran’s export revenue as US President Donald Trump seeks to pressure Iran into a deal over its nuclear programme. Washington’s sanctions against Shandong Shouguang Luqing Petrochemical in March and Shandong Shengxing Chemical in April have also begun…

Apple is once again on the receiving end of a class action lawsuit, this time surrounding the Siri voice assistant. If you used Siri between 2014 and 2024, there is a chance that you could claim money as part of a payout. 9to5Mac reports that Apple agreed to settle the privacy lawsuit back in January of this year, with Siri activations between September 17, 2014, and December 31, 2024 included. This all relates to a 2019 discovery that Apple contractors had heard private conversations of people who owned HomePods and other Apple devices. The issue came about because the devices…

Paul Pierce had an eventful Thursday morning into afternoon after a bet he made on the Boston Celtics went wrong. The Celtics’ legend walked roughly 20 miles from his home in Los Angeles to the FOX Studio lot ahead of Thursday’s “Speak,” fulfilling the promise he made if his former team lost Game 2 of their Eastern Conference semifinals series against the New York Knicks.When he arrived for Thursday’s “Speak,” Pierce recreated his memorable wheelchair incident, continuing to joke around before weighing in on the Celtics’ 2-0 deficit to the Knicks. As Boston blew a 20-point lead in the second…